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"So he did leave the shrine then, I see. Do you know who he might have been targeting for revenge and if he has met with any such people? Furthermore, I'd like you to describe his appearance before this change that you mentioned."
Komachi followed the miko's eyes as she looked away towards the shrine and noticed a man sitting on the steps. Suddenly her expression became quite serious. "Is that him there?"

"Black, is it? I see." On hearing that, Komachi returned the paper she had in hand to her pocket. Before she could say anything else the man she was inquiring about approached the two girls. As he asked if he did something wrong Komachi could only sigh as she thought to herself: yeah, I've seen behaviors like this before. He's going to pretend he doesn't know. Just makes work harder for me.

"Ok, I'll get straight to the point, it involves the miko as well. By order of the the Enma, the god of Fear is wanted as a suspect in the murder of several men. The god has violated the terms of his own faith teachings, where it says..." Komachi pulled out another document and continued: "I do not require humans to praise or worship me. Nor do I request any sort of sacrifice of human life. I only wish them to always remember and respect the emotion that I control for them." She folded the paper and put it away as well.
"Your resident miko has confirmed that you are the god, Fear. As shinigami working directly under the enma's jurisdiction it's my duty to investigate any incidents where souls are sent to Higan prematurely. UGH!!!" Komachi suddenly looked upset as she interrupted herself. "I don't really care for all this formal stuff. Look, you killed some people and it's murder so I'm just here to arrest you. It's several men and one woman, but the woman isn't admitting you did anything. I have to take your miko in too as an accomplice so how about you two make it easy for me and just come along?"

"Wha!?!?" All Komachi could do was exclaim in shock as she saw the sudden appearance of a shadowy form. Then she realized that this new being fit the description exactly as penned in Shikieiki's report. However....
"Just what exactly is going on here? Why are there two of you?" But this wasn't a time for questions. Just by glancing at Myato's face Komachi could figure out that this being was hostile. Be it youkai or the true god of Fear she had a duty to perform and having an innocent miko get hurt wasn't part of the plan.
"There are always complications."
With her right hand she grasped her scythe firmly preparing to strike in a vertical swing. With her left hand she reached into her pocket once more pulling out a spellcard and, as she began her strike she grasped the scythe with her left hand with the spellcard in her palm. The small parchment vaporized on contact with the wood and the scythe struck ground just in front of the dark figure. "Hell: Narrow Confines of Avici!" As the scythe struck ground a lavender light shined from it's tip. Before the spell card even took effect Komachi used the momentum she had to swing herself around and delivered a kick to Fear's human form. She launched Nahumar out of the range of the sudden burst of her pillar of light, leaving herself and the shadow form inside. As she stood back again in a ready position the shadow attempted to rush at her but was unable to reach. Komachi back-stepped outside of the pillar and took another spellcard out. As she raised the scythe above her head just as before she said to Nahumar, "I'm sorry about that. I just didn't think it was a good idea to have you in there. In that space, I have absolute control, no one but I can leave it's imprisonment."
Again she brought down her scythe with a vertical swing, but this time with five times the force. "Death Sign: Scythe of Final Judgement!" A massive bolt of spiritual energy fell down into the pillar. The wave was so large it crushed the wall's of the light pillar on the way down, like a boulder crushing tree branches in it's way. The energy hit the ground exploding within it's confines and finally shattering the pillar in a localized explosion.
The shrine grounds were awash with dirt and debris from the explosion as the dust settled. Komachi turned her attention to the man she had knocked down. He was kneeling on one knee but he seemed like he had rolled with the attack and not taken any damage. "Sorry about that," she said to him as she helped him up.
"Are you ok? You aren't upset I hope. This case just got a bit strange so I'll hold off on the arrest until we talk some more."

Komachi looked back over her shoulder, stunned that the shadow being was unhurt. She had to be on guard again immediately, but there wasn't enough time. The shadow had launched it's Meiling puppet at her and it wasted no time in attacking Komachi. The duplicate leaped into the air and performed Meiling's sweeping arc kick: Showering Brilliance. Though there wasn't as much power and experience compared to the real Meiling, Komachi was still caught by surprise only barely raising her scythe's handle to attempt to block the kick. The unstable situation caused Komachi to stagger and she began to fall over under the attack.
It was clutch time! She had to do something before she was seriously injured. And in the moment she was falling back she decided that a back-fall would not protect her sufficiently. She could use her Ritual of Ecstasy to swap her position with the shadow's and wasted no time initiating the technique. Just before her back hit the ground a light surrounded both her and the shadow and their places swapped.
As the shadow struck bare ground with it's kick, Komachi followed through with her temporary high ground advantage swinging the scythe down towards the head of the shadow. But the being was quick. While in it's crouched position it took a turning motion to the outside of it's extended leg and evaded the attack at the same time going for a sweeping attack to Komachi's feet. Komachi reacted by leaving her scythe in it's position and taking a forward roll around the weapon, vaulting over the shadow.
Komachi immediately stood to her feet in a ready position, only to just be on guard for the shadow's advance. It grabbed the scythe between Komachi's grip and pulled downward trying to break her grasp on the weapon and disarm her. But Komachi had been using the weapon for a very long time and something like this simple disarm would not work. Komachi raised and twisted her grip, putting her side to side with the shadow and breaking it's balance. With this opening she moved diagonally into the shadow, knocking it over. As the Meiling copy fell at released it's grip and fired a single shot of danmaku at Komachi before falling over. Komachi tried to evade the shot but it still grazed her, tearing her left sleeve as she turned to avoid it. This distraction was long enough for the shadow to recover from it's fall.
As the shadow advanced again Komachi pulled out a spellcard, but kept it enclosed in her hand. She only slowly whispered the card's name as to prevent her opponent from hearing it. The card had yet to take effect as the two clashed. Komachi took to evasive movements, turning her body out of the attack directions as she needed to. The shadow would only try frontal attacks making it easy for Komachi. While she evaded the spell card slowly took effect, however it was still unseen. As the parchment vanished Komachi tossed the scythe into the air. As the weapon spiraled upwards Komachi advanced into the shadow's next attack. It was forward strike with a turn to the left, aimed towards the neck. Komachi extended her arms as she turned into the strike, taking the shadow's momentum within her own and breaking it's balance. Then she raised the shadow up with her her arm closest to it's head and tossing it down. but not letting go of it's hand. With that grip still firmly applied Komachi pulled and spun the shadow to lay face down and pinned it by kneeling down on the arm and and rib and grasping the back of it's neck. There was barely over a second remaining before the scythe hit the ground. Komachi fully activated her spellcard "Malice Sign: Irresolute Bound Spirit!"
Two lights appeared in Komachi's hands as she held tight on her opponent who had shifted from face down to face up by changing it's shape. Just as Komachi was beginning to get creeped out at the sight below her the scythe hit the ground as she had hoped. The impact triggered the spirits in her hands to explode. At point blank range even Komachi would take some damage from her own attack but within the detonation she felt her grip go away as the body she was holding onto burst from her fingers like a water balloon. Komachi had burned her hands doing this but her opponent was in much worse shape: missing most of it's upper torso. All that remained was the legs, lower torso and a lot of black splatter.
Komachi sat down exhausted and hoping she had succeeded into putting down her enemy. But there was that nagging feeling that the formless being would not be stopped so easily.

((ooc: long post is long! I think I over did it))

At the fight's end an emotion had taken root in Komachi's mind. At first she thought she was just panicked at the unusual events. As she was released from the surprising grasp of the master shadow she bought her hand to her face. She thought she had taken a fatal wound to her head as she shook, examining herself. How could a master of death be killed? The feeling that overcame her was fear, there was no doubt. She may have won her fight but she was clearly defeated.
Malrama's voice still managed to reach Komachi in her shock. It had a calming effect if nothing else, but it took a moment for Komachi to collect her thoughts and respond, "I...I'm alright? What was that?"
Komachi's eyes and her voice reflected the confusion and fear in her mind. Today's job really will not be as easy as she wanted it to be.

Rei floated upside down her tiny wings keeping her up "that was amuseing in my dark creepy kind of way" she said smirking.

Malrama noticed Komachi's hands.
"Should i go grab something to wrap them up with?"
She asked with concern. Nahumar was already lost in thought as he approached the conductor. The huge ring that was connected to the ropes on the top was laying on the ground as if there was no energy inside.
"I will need help to bring him down, but i shall be the one to end this 'abomination' i have put in Gensokyo."
It was as if there was no way to track down the monster.
"If my intuition is right, he will only use enough force to at least copy his target. Yet against me he will go as far as to set his power from Knockout to Murder."

He halted for a bit. Then said it.
"For now, i have no backup. Which is why i will need to think of one as we prolong his assaults."
He looked at the Succubus.
"Since you are what i call "Fuel", I advise you to keep far away from the thing. Unlike myself, he would drain everything from you to gain more power to the point you will just become dust."